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Cat and Dog Welfare

Just say no
how your support is saving thousands

of dogs from the dinner table
over 1 million people saw Animals Asia’s “Say no to
Cat and Dog Meat” ads in metro stations, bus stops, busy
With your help, we’re targeting the weak spot in the dog
pedestrian streets and underground passageways in nine meat trade and saving thousands of dogs from slaughter.
Chinese cities, including Beijing and Guangzhou. The striking
artwork was provided by the winners of our China-wide Friends
The trade is rife with illegality, and many restaurants ignore
or Food poster competition.
the regulations. So we’re reporting them and getting them
closed down.

In 2016, our team reported over 1,000 illegally operating
dog meat restaurants in 28 cities to the local Food and Drug

Administration. By the end of the year, 79 had been ordered to
stop selling dog meat or close down.

Despite the huge number of dogs slaughtered for consumption
annually, China has no large-scale meat dog breeding facilities.
Most dogs sold for meat are stolen pets, or strays snatched

from the streets. It’s only thanks to your support that we can
work with the oficials to end this terrible trade.

Millions

of dogs
are slaughtered in China every year
for their meat. But dog eating is losing Children are our future . and thanks to your support, these
children now see dogs and cats as friends, not food.
popularity – especially with young
people. That’s why we’re engaging
with as many schools as we can.
The purr-fect solution

‘China’s youth are turning away from Imagine the anguish of a sick mother cat living on the

animal cruelty en masse. Once they streets with kittens she can’t feed. you’re helping to end
this misery.
hear about the illegality and suffering in

the dog meat industry, they don’t want We’re working with animal protection groups around China to
’help them roll out TNR (trap, neuter, return) projects in their
anything to do with it.
communities. In 2016, we trained ive local groups in Qingdao

and Ningbo and our TNR fund directly helped neuter and return
Carrot Chen
364 stray cats in Shanghai, Beijing, Qingdao and Guangzhou.
China Cat and Dog Welfare Manager

TNR is a humane solution to over-population and a method
welcomed by communities with large cat colonies.
Our Professor Paws dogs taught nearly
8,000

students about animal welfare while

showering them with affection. Many of these children live in
public housing where dogs are banned, and often feared. Thank
you for bringing some puppy love into their lives.

Oficer Fan, head of Tangshan City Lubei District Dog
Ownership Management Ofice, may be our next recruit! We
Your support is helping to neuter hundreds of stray cats in reached out to Oficer Fan in 2016, and hope this is the start
China. That’s millions of kittens who won’t be born into a life of a long friendship. He’s now considering joining our next

of misery and fear.
dog management symposium.

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